A nation's policies with regard to children and families give a fairly direct reflection of its economic, social, and political structure. Economic, social, and political beliefs are translated into assumptions about the ideal relation of society to the family and the individual. The industrial, developed countries with their relatively high standard of living face an entirely different set of ...

Across the developing world, many governments have implemented political reforms—heavily promoted by international donors—designed to transfer greater power to subnational levels of government and to provide a more substantial policymaking and oversight role to citizens. Although economic analyses have frequently argued that such decentralization programs improve the efficiency of public expend...

Investigating the fiscal decentralization’s effect on carbon intensity of agricultural production may assist United States in reaching its peak and becoming neutral. This paper delves into investigation spatiotemporal patterns internal relationships between decentralization, intensity, environmental regulation. The goal was achieved by using spatial Durbin model panel data for 49 states from 20...

Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the discovery of gas and oil in Central Asia and Caucasia, it faced complex interests in the international political economy. These problems were mainly rooted in developing plans of the countries for increasing their influence in the area and also in Russia's connections with the Iranian and Turkish governments in the region. This paper investigat...

Foreign Direct Investmentplays a crucial role in the economy of developing countries like Bangladesh through accelerating Gross Domestic Product (GDP), export and domestic investment followed by overall economic growth. The present scenario of FDI in Bangladesh in not still satisfactory enough but given the availability of abundant resources, skilled and cheap labor forces, a stable political a...